Ted Hamilton
Helmet Painter / Racer
1FastYammy -- maybe we need to team up.
Tim heres some suggestions for possible sponsership. During the off season is the time to approach the manufactors. Hit up Redline and blendsall and some of the other oil suppliers, for a case to be awarded at each national. Approach Mychron for a unit for each national event. Try all the tire manufactors for tires to award for the season of nationals ,even 5 sets per event.Chassis man. for a chassis with just sterring components, rear axel and brakes. They will still sell parts to finish kart tomake it race ready. Hit the wheel suppliers for some support too. Do not ask for monatary donations, ask for produts donations. Most manufactors are much more willing to make these type of supports. Ask TS and comet and Reikens what they might be willing to do in the way of product donations. Make some banners to put up at each race around the tracks at the national events.Post their names in UAS Magazine. Have drivers mention them in interviews Try and get them to sponser all the national events so the banners will work all season long. Someone in the membership must have acces to suppliers for the banners to be made cheap. These are just some suggestion off the top of my head. Many more possibilties are out there and IMO they are up for grabs.Now is the time to ask. I went to redline and approached them for support and was told that i needed to ask much earlier in the year and this was about april. They had already decided on where the support was going.
The only bad part about the 250s are their driveability on the smaller tracks.
The Big O race was not a UAS race! It is a stand alone race to honor a man that gave more to modified kart racing than any of us have ever done or probably will do! Otis was a personal friend of mine, I hope that the some people in the UAS are not going to try and make the Big O race about the UAS it is not nor should it ever be that would be very disrespectful to Otis! They offered an Unlimited class and they used the same rules that the UAS uses for that class structure and that was it! Nothing counted for the UAS and should not be thought of as a UAS event...... Mark didn't even know who Otis was or that we put on a race for him every year since 2008...
Yes, I gree that was nothing to do about the UAS race or event
I was offended because I don't want people to think it's a big race that the UAS puts on for it's series! The UAS had nothing to do with it, yes they used some rules that the UAS uses and yes one of the people involved in putting things together for the unlimited part of the race event is also a UAS administrator but that's it. I don't think it is right for the UAS or anybody else to try and use this race to benefit the UAS organization in anyway.. I hope that it stays that way because it would be disrespectful to Otis for a series to try and gain from this race in his name especially when the head of such an organization does not even know who the man was... Yes Otis loved Modified racing of all kinds but having known him I don't know if he would really put his seal of approval on the UAS series......
I was offended because I don't want people to think it's a big race that the UAS puts on for it's series! The UAS had nothing to do with it, yes they used some rules that the UAS uses and yes one of the people involved in putting things together for the unlimited part of the race event is also a UAS administrator but that's it. I don't think it is right for the UAS or anybody else to try and use this race to benefit the UAS organization in anyway.. I hope that it stays that way because it would be disrespectful to Otis for a series to try and gain from this race in his name especially when the head of such an organization does not even know who the man was... Yes Otis loved Modified racing of all kinds but having known him I don't know if he would really put his seal of approval on the UAS series......